The forest went through a 6 month review process – with the forester and ecologist to identify land that was relatively flat and not wetlands, then presentations and sign offs by the USDA, Northeast Kingdom wetlands chief, and finally the Vermont Land Trust. Then a month of harvesting the wood, sending the few hardwood and softwood logs to the saw mill a few miles away and making huge piles of wood chips, which will be food for the soil. A month of harvesting stumps and rocks followed.
It is dry now, I tasted the dirt of of the land for dinner. Tomorrow afternoon the rains will come.